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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 03:14:57 +0800
From: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: proc/locaavg definition
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 02:36:50 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> wrote:
> >
> > from what I have been able to find under /Documentation /proc/loadavg is
> >  defined as giving three loadaverage numbers, 1 min, 5 min, 15 min.
> >
> >  however as of 2.6.5ish timeframe there are a coupld of additional colums
> >  that do not appear to be documented
> >
> >  the first is something #/# that could be # of running processes/total # of
> >  processes, but I can't find a definition of this anywhere
> 
>         number of currently ready-to-run threads
>         /
>         total number of threads in the machine
>         the pid of the most-recently-created thread.
> 
> No idea why the last one is there.

This refects the forking activity. How `heavy' the load is.


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